A Cairns MP claims crime is reducing but we just can’t “feel” it in the Far North as frustration mounts over sentences for serious offences that are currently failing community expectations.

Four break-ins in just two months have turned a new home into a living nightmare for a Cairns mother, as youth offenders continue to target her property in increasingly brazen thefts.

An in-depth analysis of Queensland Police offence data has revealed concerning trends following the introduction of the state government’s hard line approach to the youth crime epidemic.

A Cairns woman’s “quick spiral” from privileged lifestyle to drug addiction saw her put “in her arm” most of the $85,000 she defrauded from the tax office, a court has been told.

Two people have been charged following a series of alleged offences across Far North Queensland, including an armed carjacking in Atherton.

The sun-drenched beauty of the Far North is about to become the backdrop for one of Australia’s darkest cold cases.